Samantha Slupski: Spoken Word Poet based out of Kansas City.

Samantha Slupski is a writer, poet, and mental health advocate based in the Midwest. Her work centers around how a body survives trauma, how trauma effects memory, and uses her poetry to learn what it means to write and exist inside joy.

Her first book of poetry was published by EMP Press in Kansas City, MO (2017), has been published in various online journals such Pressure Gauge Press, Blue Mountain Review, the This Much project, and Gasconade Review (forthcoming), and has been published on the Write About Now Youtube Channel.